SAP Practice
SAP Practice
Paddy Padmanabhan
U.S. Consulting function
NMD – Consulting
Doug Lattner
Consulting Function
Operating Regions*
Industries Service Areas
Northeast
Industry Mid-West
Service Line
Segment Leaders Leaders
GLOV
Mid America
Southeast
Region 10
Pacific Southwest
NORPAC
*One RMD – Consulting in each of these regions will have responsibility for Practice Operations for the group of regions.
R10 Consulting
R10 RMD
Rick
Wackerbarth
Business Operations
Quality (QRM)
EA XBS HC TI Advisory
Ken Porrello
Ed Brown Robert Graham Brian Augustian Parag Saigaonkar Sanjay Upendram
HRT ID FSI
Jakka Reddy Ajit Nema Ankur Chaudhary
SL Analytics
AIS
Mudit
Shama Sabade
Kulshreshtha
US Based
India Based
Overview
• Over 2.9M client service hours were delivered in Experience by Industry
R10 in FY07. Goal for FY07 is 2.8M. R10 has
delivered over 9M client service hours since
CB 9%
inception. Average utilization is at a healthy 73% ENER 1%
FSI 3%
Advisory 2%
• Our Hyderabad and Mumbai practice offices are
assessed at CMM Level 5 XBS 24%
EA 45%
• Seamless interaction and common methodology
between onshore & off-site teams with single point HC 4%
of contact for delivery
TI 25%
• Focus on training, processes and methodology
SAP Services
Service Offerings
• SAP Remote Development
– Our Remote Development (RD) service provides our
clients with application programming services for new
applications, upgrades or enhancements
• SAP Remote Configuration and Testing
– Utilize functional resource pool, remotely, to reduce
project cost and cycle time
• SAP Application Implementation
– Utilize functional resource pool for SAP
implementation
• SAP Application Maintenance/Support
– Client assistance for maintaining, administering, and
operating their systems post go-live
• SAP System Installation and Maintenance
– Our Basis/WAS group maintain and support system
infrastructure
Key Facts
• 490 Resources
• Continuous Learning – Over 120 hours of training is imparted to all resources every year
• Our offshore SAP team has delivered millions of person hours of services to over 90 global clients spanning the
full life cycle of projects
• Our delivery team has developed SAP-specific methods, tools, and processes to enhance visibility, productivity,
and transparency of services
SAP Resource Profile
Beyond world class developers, we have a full-fledged and highly experienced SAP practice in
India
BW, 13
Customer Service, 5
Enterprise Portal, 1
SD, 20
1–3 Years
QM, 1 30%
FI/FICO, 27
PP, 8
WAS-BASIS, 8 BI, 12
250
200 MDM, 10
150
100
XI, 110
50
0
Interface
LSM W
Reports
Wrkflw
Forms
BDC’s
Dialog
HR
EP
BAPI
Objects by Type
ITS
XI
ALE
EDI
TOTAL 300 280 270 222 142 80 80 15 192 40 175 32 110 40 Others
5% Conversion
16%
SAP Scripts Dialog
20% Programs
1%
Our Practitioners Skills:
Enhancements
• Over 60 practitioners are certified in NetWeaver Reverse 14%
components including XI, EP, BI, WAS and Solution Engineering
Manager 1%
Function
• Our technical resources are multi skilled and most of Module
Reports
them are specialized in one or more of SAP NetWeaver 19% 2%
Inbound
components EDI Interface Interface
Outbound
2% Interface 10%
10%
SAP – Evolution of services
Onsite
Develop
Technical Testing Ongoing
Remote Technical Unit Test QA / QC
Development Support Support
Configuration Specifications
• Process Innovation in new technology developments – from checklist to enhancing the toolset
• Process maturity assessments – CMM & SAS-70 audits
• Cross functional offerings
– Teaming with AERS on security / user adminstration
– Teaming with Human Capital for learning documents to clients
– Teaming with TI on Multiple projects where java / middleware technologies are used
Best Practices
• Talent Management Program – continue to recruit fresh graduates for
growth and cost savings
• Continuous Learning – Max no. of training programs among all
consulting service lines. Trainings and certification (through SAP
Technical seminars) in advanced areas of technology helps us to stay
AHEAD of competition
• Pioneering in Delivery Process Initiatives – Constant focus on process
improvements to improve quality of offshore deliverables.
• Resource sharing across multiple projects for some of the skilled
resources (XI, Workflow)
• Periodic (monthly) Senior Management Reviews on project risks